Scotland, Sweden in Curling Title

Published 9:00 pm, Thursday, April 11, 2002

Scotland's Jackie Lockhart beat defending champion Canada 5-4 in an extra end Friday in the women's semifinals of the World Curling Championships.

Scotland, which reached the finals for only the third time in the 24 years of the women's tournament, will face Sweden in Saturday's championship.

Sweden's Margaretha Sigfridsson defeated Norway 7-6 in the other semifinal.

It was a long day for Canada and skip Colleen Jones, who started the day by leading her team to a 6-5 extra-end victory over Switzerland in a tiebreaker.

"I like playoff curling," Jones said. "The sudden-deathness of it I find exciting."

After mistakes in the 10th end while attempting to peel guards, Canadians Kim Kelly and Mary-Anne Waye made key double takeouts to keep the house clear for Jones, who had a last-rock advantage over Switzerland's Manuela Kormann.

Jones had an open draw for the victory, putting her stone in the center circle.

Larry Johnson, of Grand Forks, led his U.S. men's team to the first ever World Senior Curling Championships, beating Canada's Ron Westcott 8-2. Anne Dunn of Canada defeated Switzerland's Erika Muller, a 1983 world women's champion, 9-3 to win the senior women's final.